"Springfield, Or Bobby Got A Shadfly Caught In His Hair" lyrics - SUFJAN STEVENS
I don't care to say what
I failed to recognize
Every single day from the poker to the prize
Running out of Springfield
I worked for the Capitol Air, in the bags
Found a woman there who said
She had a mind to make
Me a messenger man
If my father took his life
For the national plan, I don't care
I'm not about to stick my grave with an
Apron and a bucket of plans, never ever
I can take the pillow cases
Off the yellow pillows
Make a property line from the bed
In the living room, the living room
The morning papers made the most
Out of nothing at all
So we took the room
With a view of the runaway
I took off my clothes
And she took it for a holiday
I was taken for all the things
That I never had before
Running out of Springfield
She left me with a note saying:
"Bobby, don't look back"
[Bridge:]
And if my wife took a bicycle ride
With a knife in her hand
I saw it coming
All the shadflies run at once
With a trumpet or a train
Oh, I'm running from it
Wait a minute, wait a minute
Give a minute, lady
I can explain the aftershave
Wait a minute, wait a minute
Give a minute
Bobby got a shadfly
Caught in his hair
(Yes, he does)
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- Dear Mr. Supercomputer
- Adlai Stevenson
- The Vivian Girls Are Visited In The Night By Saint Dargarius
- Chicago (Acoustic Version)
- The Henney Buggy Band
- Saul Bellow
- Carlyle Lake
- Springfield, Or Bobby Got A Shadfly Caught In His Hair
- The Mistress Witch From McClure (Or, The Mind That Knows Itself)
- Kaskaskia River
- Chicago (Adult Contemporary Easy Listening Version)
- Inaugural Pop Music For Jane Margaret Byrne
- No Man's Land
- The Palm Sunday Tornado Hits Crystal Lake
- The Pick-Up
- The Perpetual Self, Or "What Would Saul Alinsky Do?"
- For Clyde Tombaugh
- Chicago (Multiple Personality Disorder Version)
- Pittsfield
- The Undivided Self (For Eppie And Popo)